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nav882

Member

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 6

connecting from linux to linux-help me on thjis asap please

Hi all,
I want to know how we conect linux machine from another linux machine remotely(This is basically for connecting home to office computer).In windows i used putty and used the following steps to connect it.But how do i do it in linux please advise with steps.
steps to connect from windows:
Steps to create VPN connection

1) go to mynetowrks , click on view connection, click on Create connection
2) select Connect to network (using VPN) click on next
3) select VPN connection click next
4) Give ip address 61.85.76.56 and open putty and i give my system ip 26.0.0.45 and
i can just give username and password and started working remotely.Please advise how to do the same in linux.Thanks in advance.

srimalik

Member

Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: connecting from linux to linux-help me on thjis asap please

you will need a VPN client for linux.

nav882

Member

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 6

Re: connecting from linux to linux-help me on thjis asap please

The connection that we havein office is a vpn.And we use linux machines there.So my query is simple how do we coneect my home machime which also has a linux os on it to my office machine provided with the above details.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: connecting from linux to linux-help me on thjis asap please

I did a google search for putty and found that putty is an ssh client.  The Arch ssh program is openssh.  Once you have it installed, do a
man ssh

and search for 'virtual' or 'vpn'.  Follow the examples there.